[brlug-general] SuSE......wow who'da thunk it

[Dustin Puryear]

Haha. Funny..

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CM Banker wrote:
> Ain't Open source grand...
> 
> 
> I've never tried SuSe but I understand that their  upgrade process
> improved markedly when they hired on David Hassllehoff
> <http://www.hasselhoff.com/> to hold his hands on the machine that burns
> the CDs.   He apparently absorbs all of the hassle from the process. 
> Suse <http://www.vamp.org/Siouxsie/> are new wave trend setters.
> 
> In response to this new technique, Microsoft fired up their OS effort on
> WindowsXPNextGen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob>  and
> started  the typical pro-microsoft marketing  campaign
> <http://www.esquilax.com/baywatch/>.
> 
> I understand Mark Shuttleworth is consulting with both Steven Seagal
> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/skyflash/76054061/>and Chuck Norris
> <http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/> to assist in "eliminating" all
> trouble with ubuntu upgrades.
> 
> Seriously, My children finished upgrading their boxen to Ubuntu 7.10 -
> no CD; just a simple command.  As it was network based, it only took a
> couple of  hours per box.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Happy Friday...
> 
> -Craig
> 
> 
> On 10/18/07, * willhill* <williamhill2 at cox.net
> <mailto:williamhill2 at cox.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Cool.  It sounds almost as easy as apt-get, and is certainly faster.
> 
>     On Thursday 18 October 2007 4:46 pm, Ronnie Gilkey wrote:
>     > [Suse was]  smart enough to resolve all the package
>     > dependencies, add a few more, remove some stale / non-existent
>     packages
>     > in the new version.  An hour and a half later, I rebooted to find an
>     > OpenSuSE 10.2 system with the latest software, and all my user /
>     > configuration data in place.  No skips, bumps, nothing, it just
>     worked
>     > -- and properly at that.  I had to re-compile one non-distributed
>     Apache
>     > module and I was running again.
>     > ...
> 
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